Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:29:46 AM@McGovern, as I said we stopped being an empire a long time ago, it's you that keeps banging on about it. For a country as small as ours with such limited resources we don't do a bad job of holding our own. Oh, and if you think we are occupying Northern Island then I guess you guys are only occupying America?

Monday, January 21, 2013 6:02:50 AMThis is somewhat misrepresenting the position. Some people argue for strict gun control when one person gets shot, but the actual issue here is school shootings or mass shootings in general. I'm sure you'd see more knife or garrote control being suggested if there were multiple annual instances of mass deaths due to knives or wire.